Top 10 Poker Tools & Poker Software

Thousands of people the world over play online poker on a regular basis. The following poker tools and poker softwaredevices may not automatically make you an elite shark, swimming in a sea of minnows, but they can help to enhance your online poker playing experience!

Gunnar Gaming Eyewear

If you’re a poker players who frequents online tournaments, chances are you’re probably in front of the computer screen for a good 4-5 hours at a time. While most of us finish playing those tournaments unscathed (save the money we might have lost), constantly looking at a screen for that long could take a toll on the eyes.

That’s where Gunnar gaming Eyewear can help. According to their website, the eyewear “creates a more comfortable and rich visual experience for the avid gamer, improving visual efficiency, endurance, and recovery, while combating eye fatigue during extending hours of gaming.”

HUD Software

Part of improving one’s game involves the analysis of as many aspects of your play as possible. That can often by difficult to do, especially when there can be so many places to start and so many things to look at.

Hold’em Manager and PokerTracker are two programs that allow players to analyse aspects of their game via an array of graphs and reports. The programs support No-Limit, Limit, or Pot-Limit betting structures in the Cash Ring Games, Sit N’ Go and Multi-Table Tournament formats.

NoteCaddy

For the most serious of online poker players, NoteCaddy stores potentially valuable information about your online poker opponents that could help influence the way you play against them in the future. It can get a bit of time to grasp, but is fairly straightforward once one gets the hang of what everything means.

Now, while it is not a magic wand solution to making you a top calibre poker pro, NoteCaddy could certainly help one strengthen their game.

PokerStove or Equilab

Another potential helpful piece of poker software, PokerStove and Equilab calculate hand equities in a relatively quick and straightforward manner, which could help a player on how to better play certain hands. Both programs are available for free, meaning you can spend your well-earned poker earnings on other potentially less productive, but probably more fun things.

PokerVIP Table Mod

This is where we do a little bit of unashamed self-promotion. The PokerVIP Table Mod allows PokerVIP members to modify layouts, chipsets and cards in a variety of ways that should suit all of their grinding needs. Available from the PokerVIP online store, the Table Mod is free of charge for all members.

Eurotech Chakra Chair

Among the kings of ergonomic chairs, the Eurotech Chakra Chair looks sort of like something from a 1980s film or TV show about the future. It has seven different ‘chakra’ components that focus on directly comforting the “on the human centers of power”, including the crown, brow, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral, and base.

While it’s not exactly a cheap chair, if you’re one of those dedicated poker nuts that play online poker for days on end, it may be end up being a potentially solid investment for your body.

Spotify

Hearing the artificial sounds of cards being dealt and chips being stacked for hours on end is enough to make even the most tolerant person lose their marbles. That makes a constant stream of decent music a must for most dedicated online poker players out there. Spotify allows you to play a huge selection of songs while you play poker, which is a much better alternative to the aforementioned noises.

Headphones

If you’re a typical online poker player, chances are you’ll likely be playing some poker games in the wee hours of the morning. If you live with others and you’re going to be using Spotify while playing, a pair of headphones is a good investment.

There are a range of headphones to suit most budgets, but if we were to make a suggestion, the Sennheiser HD518 is pretty good value for money (sound quality and comfort) that won’t break most players’ banks.

Mobile Devices

Let’s be honest, we carry our smartphones and/or tablets with us just about 24/7. And whether you are waiting for
a bus, a doctor’s appointment, or bored on your lunch break, we tend to take out our mobile devices and use them to waste time. Now you can play your favorite online poker game on your smartphone or tablet. All you have to do is download the app’s poker software and you are good to go!

Mobile poker is most definitely technology’s latest and greatest gift to online poker players everywhere, providing them with real money poker playing opportunities no matter where they are!

Punching Bag

The anonymity and abundance of small stakes games and heap tournaments in online poker make it easier for even a shark to get sucked out on more than one occasion. We’ve all been there, going all in with Pocket Aces and called by someone with Nine Four offsuit only to have them hit a Two Pair on the turn.

It’s one of the worst feelings for a poker player and going on tilt is something that’s more than enticing. A punching bag can easily fit in next to one’s computer station, and it will only take a few seconds to turn around, take all that anger out on the bag and get all that tilt out of you.